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DVLA

Volume 455: debated on Monday 15 January 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many names and addresses of drivers the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency sold to non-governmental organisations in each of the last 12 months. (113995)

Information held on DVLA driver record is not released or sold without the consent of the individual.

DVLA does not sell vehicle keeper information. Information may be released where the law allows it. Regulations permit a fee to be levied to cover the cost of processing requests but prohibit any profit from being made.

The number of requests processed each month for the last year are as follows.

Number

January 2006

123,349

February 2006

121,757

March 2006

135,349

April 2006

97,449

May 2006

118,931

June 2006

116,456

July 2006

119,338

August 2006

124,467

September 2006

106,117

October 2006

121,725

November 2006

107,384

December 2006

77,099